Today we are pleased to welcome Ed Hill, who is providing a guest post for Shmula.com today, where he discusses Agile User Stories and explains, in practice, how detailed they should be. For Lean folks, an Agile User Story is akin to a piece or a part in manufacturing. In software development, rather than dealing […]
[Guest Post] An Outsiders View of Agile Software Development: Part 2
This is Part 2 on Joe Woods’ views on Agile Software Development. He shared with us his initial thoughts on the subject in Part of Agile Software Development – what he likes about Agile Software Development. In today’s post, he shares with us what he finds as problems with agile software development. He shares with […]
[Guest Post] An Outsiders View of Agile Software Development: Part 1
We’re pleased to welcome Joe Woods as a guest post today who will share with us his thoughts on agile software development principles patterns and practices. He who will be sharing his thoughts with us on what he likes about Agile Software Development, Part 1. In Part 2, he’ll share with us his thoughts on […]
Work in Process Software Development: How to Manage WIP Using Little’s Law to Deliver Software Faster
Little’s Law is an incredibly helpful principle for business. Unfortunately, it is not used enough, or it is poorly understood. In this article, I want to explore software development processes are impacted by variability, work in process, and how to use Little’s Law to help improve inefficiencies. In this article, we explore Work in Process […]
The Seven Wastes of Software Development [video]
In this series on the Seven Wastes, we’ll attempt to highlight the 7 wastes in various industries and disciplines. Today, we’ll consider The Seven Wastes of Software Development. If the customer were to peer over your shoulder, what would they have you stop doing? In Lean Thinking, Waste is activity that adds cost but not […]
Lean for Software Development: Is it a Silver Bullet?
We interviewed Mary Poppendieck in which she answers my reader’s questions. Today, she answers a question about Agile being a Sivler Bullet. Here are Mary Poppendieck’s other responses to readers’ questions: Original Article to Ask Mary Poppendieck Anything Mary Poppendieck’s Answers to ALL Readers’ Questions Should Lean be Top-down or Bottom-up? An Interview with Mary […]
Lean for Software Transformation: Top Down or Bottom Up
Last week, I invited the readers of shmula to pose questions to Mary 1 and , the authors of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004 and, the sequel Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback). Several questions were submitted […]
Mary Poppendieck Seven Wastes Explanation
Last week, I invited the readers of shmula to pose questions to Mary and Tom Poppendieck 1, the authors of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004 and, the sequel Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback). Several questions were […]
Lean for Software
This post is a republication of an interview I held with Mary Poppendieck 1, the author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback) and Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback). Be sure to read our other interviews in our leadership series. Here are Mary Poppendieck’s other responses […]
Lean for Software: Interview with Mary Poppendieck
Mary and Tom Poppendieck, the author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004 and, the sequel Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback) were recently interviewed on the history of Lean, or the Toyota Production System, and how the […]